Scott, in a previous thread you wrote "the general thinking in many cases is that you put a VPN aggregator at the edge and expose nothing else, only that. I'm not saying that's some magic answer, but it is the "LAN Security Model" that is why VPNs were really created."

Does that thinking apply here at all, or am I missing the point? Exposing an RDP port of a Windows Server directly to the internet - so there's no authentication at the perimeter? Why is that a good idea here? I accept that RDP is essentially the same as a VPN, but isn't the difference in where the authentication takes place rather than the model itself?

Mostly because that's the LAN security model. He's advocating, here at least, for a LAN-less model in which you harden the endpoint and have zero trust to anything on the network.

@black3dynamite So, is the MCU Infinity War going to happen without FF Xmen and Silver Surfer? it must since none of them have been in the stories leading up to this. As someone who has every issue of Infinity Gauntlet, War, Crusade series comics this is troubling.

Correct, due to some funkyness with how Marvel did their film licenses the MCU can't contain any of those, it's also why Marvel comics are moving away from the X-Men.

What do you mean by this? Xmen is the best comic book series of all time without question.

So the way I grok it was that Marvel sold the film rights for X-men (and characters created in X-Men comics) to 21st Century Fox around the time of the original X-Men movies. When Marvel got fed up with that shit show and started making the MCU they stopped introducing characters in the X-Men comics and moved them to the Inhumans. This way they would retain movie/film rights. They slowed down publishing those comics as well.

I'm sure with the recent Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox makes all of that history void but it was one of the reasons they hadn't used the word "mutant" in the MCU even though they play a massive role in all the story lines up until this point in the comics.

@black3dynamite So, is the MCU Infinity War going to happen without FF Xmen and Silver Surfer? it must since none of them have been in the stories leading up to this. As someone who has every issue of Infinity Gauntlet, War, Crusade series comics this is troubling.

Correct, due to some funkyness with how Marvel did their film licenses the MCU can't contain any of those, it's also why Marvel comics are moving away from the X-Men.